Key Quotes from the Play
Key Quotes
Tag: Leaving Cert English 2025
Act 2, Scene 1-Nanna pleads with Mike
When Liam leaves, Mena tells Mike that he has to go see the priest. Sive enters after hearing the commotion and asks if Liam Scuab has been there. Mena tells her that he was and that he came to wish Sive well. Sive is astonished at this and Mena tells her that ‘he’s going away Read More …
Act Two Scene One- Liam Scuab comes to plead with Mike and Mena
Liam Scuab has come to the house looking for Sive but Mena informs him that Sive is not there despite the fact that he saw her bike in the yard. Mena warns Liam that he is not wanted in the house and that there will be consequences if Mike sees him there. Liam says that Read More …
Act 1, Scene 3-Sive is told about the ‘match.’
As they hear Sive approach, Mena tells Thomasheen to go and she will sort the marriage by herself. Sive enters and tells them that her bike had a puncture. Mena offers her tea and cake before her dinner and the stage directions show that she is, ‘too surprised to reply.’ Mena is putting on a Read More …
Act 1 Scene 3-Mena and Thomasheen Threaten Nanna
Alone now with Mena and Nanna, Thomasheen accuses Nanna of spreading his business, which is supposed to be a secret. He is condescending and threatening towards Nanna when he says, “You are a lone woman with your husband feeding the worms in his trench. You have terrible gumption with no one left to back you.” Read More …
Sive-Thomasheen Comes to Visit
Thomasheen Sean Rua, who is a matchmaker comes to visit Mena and it is clear from the stage and directions and his first few lines that he is up to something. He enquires whether Mena is alone or not before entering the house. When he is sure that no one is listening he tells Mena Read More …
Sive-Scene Summaries and Sample Answers
Act 1, Scene 1 (Introduction to Sive, Mena and Nanna) Act 1, Scene 1 (Thomasheen comes to visit) Act 1, Scene 1(Mena Proposes the Match to Mike) Act 1, Scene 1 (Liam Comes to Visit Sive) Act 1, Scene 2 (Sean Dota Visits Sive) Act 1 Scene 3 (Mena and Thomasheen Threaten Nanna) Act 1, Read More …